Biographies

Dr. Terence Hedley Matthews is Chairman of the Board of CounterPath Corp., since August 2, 2007. Mr. Matthews is the founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover International Corporation, an investment vehicle and holding company. Mr. Matthews has either founded or funded over 100 companies since 1972 including Newbridge Networks Corporation, a company he founded in 1986 and which became a leader in the worldwide data networking industry. When France-based Alcatel acquired Newbridge Networks Corporation in May 2000, the company employed more than 6,500 employees and recorded fiscal year 1999 revenue of $1.8 billion. In 1972, before launching Newbridge Networks Corporation, Mr. Matthews co-founded Mitel Networks Corporation, a world leader in design and manufacture of enterprise communications solutions. Wesley Clover has interests in a broad range of next-generation technology companies, real estate, hotels and resorts. Mr. Matthews is also Chairman of a number of private and publicly traded companies including Mitel Networks Corporation and Solace Systems, Inc. and sits as a director on the boards of several others. Mr. Matthews holds an honours degree in electronics from the University of Wales and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by several universities, including the University of Wales and Carleton University in Ottawa. In 1994, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was awarded a Knighthood. In 2011, he was appointed Patron of the Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute at Cardiff University.

Mr. David L. Karp is Interim Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Corporate Secretary of CounterPath Corp. Mr. Karp has been our Chief Financial Officer since September 7, 2006. Mr. Karp became Treasurer and Corporate Secretary on November 3, 2006. From May 2004 to August 2006, Mr. Karp was Chief Financial Officer of Chemokine Therapeutics Corp., where he led the company’s initial public offering and listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”). From February 2002 to May 2004, Mr. Karp was Chief Financial Officer of Neuro Discovery Inc., a Vancouver based, publicly traded investment management company focused on biotechnology investing. Mr. Karp assisted in raising capital and making private investments in early stage biotechnology companies in addition to having overall responsibility for all treasury, reporting and control functions. From August 1997 to September 2001, Mr. Karp was Vice President, Investment Banking for BMO Nesbitt Burns in Vancouver. His experience includes raising capital and managing a number of merger, acquisition and restructuring assignments for public and private companies in a variety of industries. Mr. Karp holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder and a Professional Engineer.

Mr. Owen Matthews is Vice-Chairman of CounterPath Corp., since August 2, 2007. Mr. Matthews also currently serves as the Executive Vice-President of Wesley Clover International Corporation, an investment vehicle and holding company. Between October 1998 and August 2, 2007, Mr. Matthews was Chief Executive Officer of NewHeights Software Inc. In this capacity, Mr. Matthews was responsible for NewHeights’ overall corporate growth and ensuring that the company delivered industry leading personal communications management solutions. Mr. Matthews was active in driving the NewHeights’ sales process, both domestically and internationally, and regularly engaged in technology strategy sessions with carriers, customer-premise equipment vendors and PC equipment manufacturers. In 1998, Mr. Matthews co-founded NewHeights in response to the emerging shift towards the development of commercial IP Telephony systems. Foreseeing the widespread adoption of IP PBXs and hosted IP Centrex, Mr. Matthews launched NewHeights to develop an intuitive, next-generation software client that would bring together the power of both the telephony and data networks in an intuitive graphic interface. Our Board has determined Mr. Matthews should serve on the Board as a director of our company and the Vice-Chairman of the Board given that Mr. Matthews has been extensively involved in operating and investing in telecommunications companies for over a decade. Mr. Matthew’s business and technology acumen was in part seasoned under various Matthews’ business holdings, including NewBridge Networks Corporation and Wesley Clover International Corporation and its portfolio of technology corporations.

Mr. Todd Carothers is Executive Vice President-Sales and Marketing of CounterPath Corp. Mr. Carothers has been our Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing since May 4, 2016. Since February 2008, Mr. Carothers held various positions with our company in marketing, product management and sales management. Mr. Carothers has over 20 years of experience in marketing, product management and sales management working with some of its largest enterprise, operator and channel partner customers including AT&T, Black & Decker, Cablevison Mexico, Comcast, FT/Orange, Hitachi, KDDI, NEC, Nokia, NTT, Prudential, Rogers, Verizon, Telefonica and Vodafone. Between November 2003 and October 2007, Mr. Carothers served as VP, Marketing and Business Development at BridgePort Networks. Prior to BridgePort Networks, Mr. Carothers held marketing, product management, business development and sales management positions at Malibu Networks, Adaptive Broadband (formerly California Microwave) and Sciforma Corporation. Mr. Carothers holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in Business Administration from California State University, Chico with a minor in Computer Technology.

Mr. Christopher R. Cooper is Independent Director of CounterPath Corp., since August 17, 2005. Mr. Cooper has 17 years of experience in management and finance in the oil and gas industry starting several junior issuers. Over the past several years, Mr. Cooper has successfully raised over $120 million primarily through brokered and non-brokered equity issues as well as debt financing. Currently, Mr. Cooper is the President, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Aroway Energy Inc., a junior oil and gas issuer. Mr. Cooper received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Hofstra University and his Master’s in Business Administration from Dowling College, both in New York State.

Mr. Bruce A. Joyce is Independent Director of CounterPath Corp., effective September 25, 2013. He is a senior advisor to boards on strategic, operational and corporate governance issues. His broad business expertise is based on over 30 years of public accounting experience serving large public sector organizations, global advanced technology and communications companies, and growth oriented private companies. He currently serves as chair of the audit committee of the Auditor General of Canada, is on the Advisory Board of Armstrong Monitoring and the Board of Pron to Forms Corporation, where he chairs the audit committee. He is on the Board and chairs the Audit Committee of Ross Video, a private global production technology company based in Ottawa. During the fall of 2015, Mr. Joyce was the Executive in Residence at the Schwartz School of Business at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. From August 2010 to November 2011, Mr. Joyce was the Vice President of Leadership and Human Resources Research for the Conference Board of Canada. Prior to that, he spent 23 years with Deloitte where he was a senior partner in the National Capital Region office of Deloitte, serving as the Office Managing Partner for seven years and the leader of the Canadian Federal Government practice for five years. He has also completed the Directors Education Program through the Institute of Corporate Directors, is Human Resources and Compensation Committee Certified through The Directors College and completed the Deloitte Competitive Readiness Program taught by the Kellogg School of Management and Columbia Business School.

Mr. Larry Timlick is Independent Director of CounterPath Corp., since June 17, 2005. Mr. Timlick has extensive knowledge of the enterprise and service provider markets with over 25 years of technical sales and management experience and has been a director of our company since June 17, 2005. Mr. Timlick is Regional Sales Leader Western Canada at Avaya Inc. Prior to this, Mr. Timlick was Regional Sales Leader - Western Canada for Arista Networks, a provider of cloud networking solutions for large data center and computing environments since November, 2011. Mr. Timlick acted as interim President of our company from June 2005 to August 2005. From 1991 to 2004, Mr. Timlick was with Cisco Systems Canada. While with Cisco Systems Canada, Mr. Timlick was responsible for developing a sales region for TELUS, a major telecommunications carrier in Canada, which was named Region of the Year, Americas International in FY 2004. Mr. Timlick was recognized for the following achievements at Cisco Systems including: Top Americas International Performer – Regional Manager FY 2000; Highest Regional Percentage of Goal – Americas International FY 2000; Top Canadian Regional Performance FY 2001 – Western Region Service Providers; and Top Customer Satisfaction Americas International FY 2002. As the first Cisco Systems employee in Western Canada, Mr. Timlick expanded the business and opened offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina and Winnipeg. Mr. Timlick has also held management positions with AT&T Canada and Telex/Tulsa Computer Products. Mr. Timlick is also a director of Para Resources Inc. and Sora Capital Corp.

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